Angel

Chapter 1

There once was angel who fell in love with a human and asked if they could be born on earth the same time that the person that they loved was, so they could meet them and have a chance to love them. God agreed but let them know that they had a purpose to fulfil when they were on earth or they would take them back up into heaven again. The angel agreed but God knew that this love that they felt for this human was consuming and they had a habit of making love their only purpose, so he knew how this would end. But he let him be born on June 6th 1992, to a middleclass family in America, Austin ,Texas.

His parents cooed over their new baby boy and named him John McIntyre Adams. He was going to be a famous basketballer his dad decided. His mum disagreed; he was going to be a writer. They both had a small debate over it when they concluded why not both? And also why couldn't he be an allrounder, a scholar, as well as a sports star- talented in many subjects AND sports. Why couldn't he be good at multiple things? If he tried hard enough in all of them, they decided.

The first step was learning English, potty training, learning to walk, teaching him to use knives and forks and spoons, reading and writing, then teaching him his 2nd language with a learning tutor, then his 3rd, then his 4th. Then maths, science, English, basketball, soccer, tennis to start with. His parents both took on extra hours. His mum working as an editor for a newspaper firm from home so she could look after little wee John and his dad as a sports coach for an indoor sports centre. His mum taught him about writing and his dad trained him in a lot of different sports.

He grew up learning as many things as he could. The goal was to send him to Harvard with him getting scholarships since they didn't have a huge amount of money.

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Time passed and now it was his 16th birthday. He had a big birthday party with all his friends there, which his parents and him saved to provide him with. There was 250 people in total. He stood on stage to blow out his candles. 1 foot in front of him was a model holding his cake, he came closer about to blow them out and paused to make a wish. What else could he want, he had the grades, a job, loads of friends, excelling in sports, no problem with girls. He was stumped and thought to himself that he'd never been in love although he always had his eye on someone new. He wasn't going to tell anyone what he wished for because he was scared, they might laugh. What teenage boy was wishing that he could fall in love? He wasn't going to tell them that he still believed in wishing for things on his birthday either for the same reason. But He'd never fallen in love with someone before in the way that you would do anything for that person, and he wanted to know what all the songs and poems and stories were about first-hand.

He blew out the candles and everyone popped giant party poppers that exploded confetti all over the room as they cheered and yelled happy birthday. John smiled while the model cut a piece of cake and instead of giving it to him on a plate, she smushed in his face. John smiled beneath the frosting on his face and tasted some of it. It was cream cheese frosting with red velvet cake, his favourite.

One of his friends Kelsey popped a bottle of champagne and it overflowed out of the bottle on to the floor as she tried to pour it in different glasses and one got handed up to John with a towel

"Thankyou for being here and celebrating my 16th birthday, I love and appreciate all of you. It's been real and I appreciate everyone who made it here."

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John woke up the next day hungover at someone's house. He noticed Jake Watts his best friend was passed out face down on the floor not far away from where he woke up. He recognised 3 different people he was friends with around the room passed out too. He tried to wake up Jake who eventually woke up and then they went back to his house to eat something. Jakes brown skin complimented his green eyes and short black hair. He came from a rich family so he always had expensive clothing. John brought out ham and vegetable wraps, protein bars, fruit, protein shakes and fat burning cookies. Jake picked at his food tentatively, wishing it was bacon and eggs or pancakes or junk food. Most people ate junk food when they were hungover, but not John. Always on that health buzz.